egcs-1.1 status

[Jeffrey A Law]

  In message < 199808220621.XAA03396@dm.cobaltmicro.com >you write:
  >    Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1998 14:24:54 -0600
  >    From: Jeffrey A Law <law@cygnus.com>
  > 
  >      > A new problem that just has appeared today is that Linux 2.1 uses 
  >      > __attribute__((regparm)) for some critical functions, and at least e
  > gcs 1.0
  >      > seems to have problems to generate correct code with this in all cas
  > es.
  >    Oh god.  Please stop them from doing this.  regparm does not work on
  >    the x86 and will never work correctly on the x86.  They're just going
  >    to shoot themselves in the foot.
  > 
  > So there are plans to disable it entirely since it cannot be fixed?
  > If it doesn't work and is beyond repair, it should be removed.
There are now :-)

Fixing regparm to work means killing SMALL_REGISTER_CLASSES.  Which
would be a good thing, but is a huge amount of work.

jeff